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KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION hindered by KNOWLEDGE ENTROPY DECAY during language model pretraining

This paper describes how a model’s tendency to broadly integrate its parametric knowledge evolves throughout pretraining, and how this behavior affects overall performance, particularly in terms of knowledge acquisition and forgetting. The concept of knowledge entropy is introduced, which quantifies the range of memory sources the model engages with; high knowledge entropy indicates that the…

walterstiers

2024-10-13

AI, Information Technology

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, AI, entropy, philosophy, physics, Science

Learning by thinking

Learning by thinking in natural and artificial minds:Canonical cases of learning involve novel observations external to the mind, but learning can also occur through mental processes such as explaining to oneself, mental simulation, analogical comparison, and reasoning. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) reveal that such learning is not restricted to human minds: artificial minds…

walterstiers

2024-09-27

Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, education, learning, teaching

Movement Matters

An Open Access book from MIT press, Movement Matters: How Embodied Cognition Informs Teaching and Learning (available for download). Experts translate the latest findings on embodied cognition from neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science to inform teaching and learning pedagogy. Embodied cognition represents a radical shift in conceptualizing cognitive processes, in which cognition develops through mind-body…

walterstiers

2024-09-26

Biology of Information, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Walking

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, cognitive-science, education, fitness, mental-health, psychology

regulation of motivated behavior

in “A unified theoretical framework underlying the regulation of motivated behavior“, Yu-Been Kim, Young Hee Lee, Shee-June Park and Hyung Jin Choi explain that multiple psychological components have evolved in order to orchestrate behaviors for survival. Despite several theories regarding behavior regulation, these theories do not clearly distinguish distinct components and do not explain the…

walterstiers

2024-09-26

#Sensemaking, Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens, AI, artificial-intelligence, health, machine-learning, technology

Better stories <equals> better solutions

Become a Better Problem Solver by Telling Better Stories is a great article from Arnaud Chevallier, Albrecht Enders, and Jean-Louis Barsoux on MIT SMR. One of the biggest obstacles to effective decision-making is failure to define the problem well. Invoking the power of narrative and a simple story structure can help ensure that teams are…

walterstiers

2024-09-26

#sense-making, #Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Design Thinking, Innovation Games, Life Ideas, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, business, gaming, writing

Risk and Uncertainty

The core of this post comes from “How do smart people make smart decisions?” by Gerd Gigerenzer, delivered at TEDxNorrköping – available at https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lg7G8TMe_A and a transcript available . However, there are more sources which lead to this insights, like e.g.: RISK VS UNCERTAINTY RISK: How should we make decisions when all relevant alternatives, consequences,…

walterstiers

2024-09-25

#Wicked, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical, Uncategorized

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

How Collaboration Breaks Down

Simon DeDeo and many other authors describe in this chapter how humans may be “super-cooperators,” but no collaboration lasts forever. This chapter summarizes the outcome of an interdisciplinary collaboration between political, social, economic, and cognitive scientists into the question of collaboration collapse. It locates the breakdown of collaboration downstream from the failure to align on…

walterstiers

2024-09-25

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens, business, collaboration, innovation, leadership, politics

Will We Ever Have Conscious Machines?

The question of whether artificial beings or machines could become self-aware or conscious has been a philosophical question for centuries. The main problem is that self-awareness cannot be observed from an outside perspective and the distinction of being really self-aware or merely a clever imitation cannot be answered without access to knowledge about the mechanism’s…

walterstiers

2024-09-24

AI, Biology of Information, Complexity, Information Technology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #HumanAI, #TheInformationLens, #Uncertainty

Resilience may have downsides…

Traditionally, resilience has been viewed as a general positive adaptation to stressors. However, the hallmark of resilience – returning to the previous state following a perturbation – may also have severe downsides, which are often overlooked. Specifically, it may be unrealistic to return to the previous state or resilience may cause a person to become…

walterstiers

2024-09-23

Biology of Information, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #Neuroscience, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, mental-health, resilience, wellness

practical wisdom in complex system management

Leonie Hallo et al. published the research “Investigating practical wisdom in complex system management: What is it and how do we get more?“ Systems are now extremely complex with the continuous involvement of multiple stakeholders and rapidly advancing technology, and a new way of viewing high-performance system management and decision-making is needed.This paper considers the…

walterstiers

2024-09-11

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Practical Wisdom, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, leadership, personal-development

How to do strategic foresight

“Foresight” is on the rise. What was a discipline restricted to a few people decades ago has become very popular. That’s good news – a wider use of foresight can have a number of benefits, as this guide explains. However, along with that popularity, the expectations about the scope of foresight have also grown. We…

walterstiers

2024-09-09

Creative Thinking, Design Thinking, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Complex Systems Research in Psychology

Han L. J. van der Maas published August 31, 2024 this SFI book “Complex Systems Research in Psychology“, available as PDF for free. Prologue This book is intended for psychologists and social scientists interested in modeling psychological processes using the tools of complex-systems research. The book has three primary objectives. The first is to provide…

walterstiers

2024-09-06

Biology of Information, Complexity, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

I Might As Well Be Happy

The Korean best-seller If I’m Going to Live to One Hundred, I Might As Well Be Happy, is a “comforting, insightful, and surprisingly hilarious collection of life lessons” from retired psychiatrist and essayist Rhee Kun Hoo (이근후 1935-). He offers the wisdom he’s learned along the way on everything from forgiveness and regret to perseverance, letting…

walterstiers

2024-09-04

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Three Orders and levels of Theorizing: unite in complexity …

“A Pragmatist Approach to Complexity Theorizing in Project Studies: Orders and Levels” offers pragmatist recommendations to develop strong theorizing strategies organized in a triad: 1. orders of theorizing (degree of recursiveness of the theorizing process), 2. levels of theorizing (interactions between micro, meso, and macro loci of analysis), and 3. the integration between orders and…

walterstiers

2024-08-20

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

New Stakeholder Theory to rescue the megaproject puzzle …

“Cracking the megaproject puzzle: A stakeholder perspective?” advocates the perspective ” new stakeholder theory ” to make sense of empirical regularities in megaprojects, so make sense of delays, cost growth, and scope creep. It is suggested that empirical regularities are not isomorphic with bad management and/or dishonesty, but rather an outcome of the ‘rules of the game’.…

walterstiers

2024-08-20

#stakeholder economy, Complexity, Policy, Sustainability

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

Values to Vision scenarios for bridging the gap.

Some insights I would like to share from Uri Avin, Robert Goodspeed & Lily Murnen: From Exploratory Scenarios to Plans: Bridging the Gap. Many planners may be familiar with normative scenario planning. With roots in the tradition of utopian plans, normative scenario planning similarly seeks to create a scenario that describes a desirable vision for…

walterstiers

2024-08-20

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Innovation Games, Policy, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

wisdom perception across 12 countries

Wisdom is the hallmark of social judgment, but how people across cultures recognize wisdom remains unclear—distinct philosophical traditions suggest different views of wisdom’s cardinal features. This article in Nature Communications explores perception of wise minds across 16 socio-economically and culturally diverse convenience samples from 12 countries. Participants assessed wisdom exemplars, non-exemplars, and themselves on 19…

walterstiers

2024-08-18

#Sensemaking, Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Bayesian inference from the ground up

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers and Dora Matzke developed a course book “Bayesian inference from the ground up: The theory of common sense” will be made freely available on their BayesianSpectacles website. Click here to obtain the first 27 chapters and 4 appendix chapters. The website is full of interesting information, including the Let’s Poke a Pizza: A New…

walterstiers

2024-08-13

Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Science

#DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens

Do we all see the same colours?

Patrick Mineault made a little app to test if we all see the same colours. https://ismy.blue He did the test, and in the end, yes, his wife has consistently different blue/green boundaries. It takes access to an adaptive optics ophthalmoscope to figure out if it’s a cone density difference or more of a Sapir-Whorf situation.…

walterstiers

2024-08-13

Biology of Information, Life Ideas

#TheInformationLens

It’s the Biology, Stupid!

“It’s the biology, stupid! Proxy failures in economic decision making” is a commentary by Pier Luigi Sacco (available here), on a work by Yohan J. John et.al.: “Dead rats, dopamine, performance metrics, and peacock tails: Proxy failure is an inherent risk in goal-oriented systems” (also available on ResearchGate) Where the “Dead rats, … peacock tails”…

walterstiers

2024-08-07

#Sensemaking, #stakeholder economy, Biology of Information, Creative Thinking, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Policy, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #EconomicBehavior, #StakeholderEconomy, #TheInformationLens

Slow productivity — here’s why you should adopt it…

The full title is “Slow productivity worked for Marie Curie — here’s why you should adopt it, too“, and yes, it is referring to the book from Cal Newport, I already mentioned a while ago. “… figure out how you can leverage the autonomy you have and how you organize your labour to get away…

walterstiers

2024-08-06

#Sensemaking, Complexity, Creative Thinking, Information Technology, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens

Insight –> selection of ideas

“Insight and the selection of ideas” describes the mechanisms underlying Eureka heuristic, explained within an active inference framework. Perhaps it is no accident that insight moments accompany some of humanity’s most important discoveries in science, medicine, and art. Here we propose that feelings of insight play a central role in (heuristically) selecting an idea from…

the lost art of accomplishment without burnout

The book “Slow Productivity The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout” by Cal Newport. An excerpt is available on the author’s website: “When I first encountered the story of John McPhee’s long days looking up at the leaves in his backyard — a scene from a time long past, when those who made a living…

walterstiers

2024-07-30

Creative Thinking, Life Ideas, Science, Social-Technical

#DecisionIntelligence, #ProblemSolvingMind, #TheInformationLens, cal-newport, productivity, slow-productivity

music and aging | Bayesian inference

“Understanding music and aging through the lens of Bayesian inference“ Bayesian inference has recently gained momentum in explaining music perception and aging. A fundamental mechanism underlying Bayesian inference is the notion of prediction. This framework could explain how predictions pertaining to musical (melodic, rhythmic, harmonic) structures engender action, emotion, and learning, expanding related concepts of music…

walterstiers

2024-07-29

Active Inference, Biology of Information, Complexity, Decision Intelligence, Life Ideas, Neurobiology/psychology, Science

#ActiveInference, #DecisionIntelligence, #TheInformationLens